36 Facts About Pam Hupp

Pamela Marie Hupp is an American murderer serving a life sentence in Missouri's Chillicothe Correctional Center for the 2016 shooting of Louis Gumpenberger in her home in O'Fallon, Missouri.

Pam Hupp ultimately entered an Alford plea before charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action could go to trial.

Testimony from Pam Hupp had played a key role in the 2013 conviction of Russ Faria for the murder of his wife, Betsy Faria, who was stabbed to death in her home in Troy, Missouri, in 2011.

Law enforcement have theorized that Pam Hupp tricked Gumpenberger into entering her home and then murdered him in a failed attempt to frame Faria.

In July 2021, Pam Hupp was charged with the first-degree murder of Betsy Faria; a trial was scheduled for September 2026.

Pam Hupp has been investigated in connection with the death of her mother, Shirley Neumann, who died in 2013 from injuries sustained in a fall from the balcony of her third-floor apartment in Fenton, Missouri.

Pam Hupp grew up in Dellwood, Missouri where she attended Riverview Gardens High School.

Pam Hupp lived on Sumac Drive in Troy, Missouri, with her husband, Russell Scott Faria, and two daughters from a previous relationship.

Pam Hupp later said that Betsy had wanted her to keep the money for herself.

Pam Hupp admitted that she had lied about what she intended to do with the life insurance proceeds.

Betsy had originally been scheduled to be driven home by Russ, or else stay with her mother, until Pam Hupp unexpectedly drove to her mother's house and insisted on driving her home.

Pam Hupp had been stabbed over 55 times, with her wrists cut to the bone and a serrated kitchen knife left lodged in her neck.

Pam Hupp's agitated emotional state was regarded as "suspicious" by police, and he ostensibly failed a polygraph test.

When interviewed by police, Pam Hupp claimed that Russ had a "violent temper"; that he was a heavy drinker; and that he had threatened Betsy, who had considered leaving him.

The next month, the Post-Dispatch reported that Pam Hupp had kept the $150,000 rather than put it into a trust for Betsy's daughters.

Pam Hupp had contradicted herself during police interviews, such as initially claiming she had not entered the Faria house after driving Betsy home but later revising this account twice.

Pam Hupp told police that she had "remembered" seeing Russ and another man in a car parked in a side street outside the Faria house as she drove Betsy home.

In June 2019, after Pam Hupp entered an Alford plea to the murder of Louis Gumpenberger, Lincoln County prosecuting attorney Mike Wood announced that he would be reopening the Betsy Faria homicide investigation.

On July 8,2021, Pam Hupp was interviewed in connection with the murder of Betsy for the first time.

Court documents filed by Wood asserted that Pam Hupp murdered Betsy for financial gain.

The prosecution alleged that Pam Hupp repeatedly stabbed Betsy while she was asleep on her sofa and weakened from her chemotherapy treatment, then removed her socks and used them to spread blood around the house to try to give the impression of domestic violence before replacing them on Betsy's feet.

Pam Hupp further suggested that, by the time of Russ' second trial, Lincoln County prosecutors were acting to protect their own civil liability rather than seeking justice.

In October 2022, the venue of Pam Hupp's trial was moved to Greene County, Missouri to ensure a fair jury pool given the publicity around the case, being transferred to the 31st Judicial Circuit.

In March 2024, Pam Hupp entered a "not guilty" plea to the refiled charges.

Pam Hupp spent the night of October 29,2013, with Hupp following a hospital visit.

Pam Hupp had mental and physical disabilities after a car crash in 2005.

Shortly after 12:00 noon on August 16,2016, Louis Gumpenberger died after Pam Hupp shot him five times in the hallway of her home at 1260 Little Brave Drive in O'Fallon.

Immediately after the shooting, Pam Hupp voluntarily went to the O'Fallon Police Department.

Pam Hupp claimed Gumpenberger had jumped out of a car which was driven by another person, brandished a knife while she sat in her SUV in her garage, and demanded she drive to a bank to retrieve "Russ' money".

Pam Hupp further claimed she had knocked the knife out of Gumpenberger's hand with a "karate chop" and then fled into her house, shooting Gumpenberger in self-defense with a Ruger LCR she kept on her nightstand after he pursued her.

Pam Hupp appeared in court on January 31,2017, pleading not guilty.

Pam Hupp was sentenced to life without parole in August 2019.

In June 2022, Burger's firm secured an initial payment of $783 garnished from money Pam Hupp had earned working as a tutor in the Chillicothe Correctional Center.

In September 2020, Pam Hupp filed a motion to vacate her conviction, claiming she was pressured to take a plea; it was denied the following March as untimely.

Renee Zellweger, who had become interested in the case after becoming "obsessed" with the Dateline NBC podcast, served as executive producer for the series and portrayed Pam Hupp using facial prosthetics and a fatsuit.

In September 2024, Pam Hupp was featured in the Tubi true crime docuseries Ms.